Talking About New Chinese Tourists
The World Meets Asian Tourists
ISBN: 978-1-78560-219-1, eISBN: 978-1-78560-218-4
Publication date: 7 December 2016
Abstract
Nature plays an important role in tourism experiences with more people seeking leisure activities in outdoor settings. Tourism management can facilitate a reduction of impacts and enhancement of experiences but requires sensitivity to individual markets to be effective. This chapter investigate stakeholders’ perspectives for managing Chinese tourism to Wet Tropics. Specifically, it aims to determine overall thoughts as well as individual attitudes toward different futures. Guided by the concept of saturation of ideas in qualitative data, 18 in-depth interviews were conducted with stakeholders in north Queensland. Findings indicate that they are optimistic toward all futures but have different plans for and concerns about individual tourism markets.
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Acknowledgment
The author wishes to thank the tourism stakeholders who kindly donated their time and offered their perspectives.
Citation
Osmond, A.M. (2016), "Talking About New Chinese Tourists", The World Meets Asian Tourists (Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice, Vol. 7), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 247-265. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2042-144320160000007015
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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